National Veterans Legal Services Program

Thousands of Vietnam veterans are missing out on VA benefits

A recent inspector general report found VA failed to identify tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans who could qualify for retroactive benefits.

Veterans Affairs

Veterans get help trying to navigate Veterans Affairs’ complex of programs

Veterans Affairs

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A veterans advocacy group updates its guidance to take the Pact Act into account

Veterans Affairs

FILE - In this April 28, 2011, photo, an Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. The House is poised to pass legislation that would dramatically boost health care services and disability benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Veterans and their supports push for burn pit related relief

Veterans Affairs

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Congress taps brakes on DoD project to reform IT funding

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Those military burn pit veterans have help in representing their claims

Veterans Affairs

Legal group files lawsuit challenging disability retirement for Sailors and Marines

Benefits

Judges wooden gavel resting on a law book in a courtroom conceptual of judgements, crime, punishment, and justice

Federal judiciary can’t use PACER as IT slush fund, appeals court rules

Agency Oversight

Trump grants clemency to pair of former federal players

Federal Newscast

FILE - This March 27, 2008, aerial file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. A Federal court has ordered the Pentagon to temporarily halt work with Microsoft on its $10 billion military cloud contract, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, after Amazon sued alleging that President Donald Trump's bias against the company hurt its chances to win the project. Amazon requested the court issue the injunction last month. Both the documents requesting the block and the judge's decision to issue the temporary injunction are sealed by the court. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Veterans group: Pentagon broke agreement to reopen database

Defense

Presidential candidate lays out plan to reshape federal workforce

Federal Newscast

Veterans legal services group sues over removal of public troop records

When the Defense Department pulled down public availability of records from discharge review boards, that raised a lot of hackles among veterans.

Federal Drive

Dispute between some veterans and VA over health care continues

Bart Stichman, executive director of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, discusses the ongoing health care battle between some veterans and the VA.

Federal Drive

VA hit with lawsuit claiming 1,000s of vets never received medical reimbursements

Federal Drive

Bart Stichman, executive director and co-founder of the National Veterans Legal Services Program, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain why they’re going after VA.